Former CERN Physicist Jailed in Terrorist Plot

Posted on May 4, 2012

AP/Thibault Camus

The brother and father of Adlene Hicheur speak to reporters outside the Paris courthouse where he was tried.

Adlene Hicheur, a 35-year-old Algerian-born nuclear physicist who worked in Switzerland’s CERN laboratory, was sentenced to five years in prison by a French court for “criminal association with a view to plotting terrorist attacks” on a French barracks with al-Qaida’s North African affiliate.

Claiming to have only explored jihadist ideas without any plans to carry them out, Hicheur says he is a victim of overzealous French anti-terror laws. —ARK

The Guardian:

The case centred on about 35 emails between Hicheur and an alleged contact with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb through Mustapha Debchi, who tried to convince him to carry out a suicide bombing. Hicheur declined, but in one response suggested striking at the barracks of a battalion of elite Alpine troops in the eastern town of Cran-Gevrier.

Hicheur claimed he was on morphine for a herniated disc and was going through a personal “zone of turbulence” when he wrote an email in 2009 that advocated an attack on the barracks.

vec—- declining to blow his own ass up while killing other people and instead
suggesting alternative murders and methods doesn’t strike me, given the lengthy
correspondence, as suggestive of a….. nice guy or innocent man…......given that
he ‘s not denying the evidence but seeking some lame excuses for his actions, I’m
going with he’s a fucking hero and a real brave man. hurray for him and may he
have a great cell-mate.

“vec—- you silly goose, have you already mislaid the
idea that we’re talking about a 35 year old Alegerian
contemplating murdering French folk?”

He wasn’t personally planning to murder anyone. And the communications directed at him were the well known tactic of entrapment. It’s all been done before to many other people and a lot of them are now in jail too. When they run low on ‘terrorists’ they manufacture their own. Anything to keep the counter terrorism gravy train on track and on time.

If the Brown, Black , Native (American Indians)and Asian people of the wold are never entitled to “Justice” (revenge), than why have we killed so many Muslims after 9/11? Should we not have just blew it off and looked to the future?

It would seem in you narrow little mind that Justice is served only to the weak and the non-white.

vec—- good point. because the French were beastly to Algerians for a long time
up until shortly before the birth of 35-year-old Adlene Hicheur, it seems only
sporting to allow him to plot to blow up a couple of dozen French people now…..